"Art is when things appear rounded."

“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan

“The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.255

“One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.”

“No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal is something that hasn't been in a garbage can first. And Kerrick poisoned us-' 'Not on purpose,' Kerrick said. 'The meat looked done.”

“No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.”

“I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.”

“It's the irrational things that interest me.”